... exactly in the centre of the space, and at the apex iscovered by the sartorius muscle. The spot where it goes under the sartorius is the one selected for the application of the ligature. The femoral ... the Scylla of wounding the artery, they fallinto the Charybdis, on the one hand, of isolating too much of the vessel andcausing gangrene from want of vascularsupply, or, on the other, expose the ... work of this character, on the vessels of the leg and foot. A verylarge number of distinct methods of operations on the various parts of the three chief arteries of the leg have beendescribed by...